New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-24
SUPPLEMENT.
PAGES 9 TO IL.
NOTES FROM PARIS.
cir CHARLES dixie ON EUROPEAN Ar
FaIRs-pRINCE FERDINAND

a., rh.~,.s Dilke's series OF papere on 'oo 0."soS
Eurooe have been brought ou' " ~, 49, o,ession
80. nrbI,ahing house OF Quantin- my 'mProo''on
= rssainc them e. they appeared was that tney "ore
30 good-uatured. But 1t appears that eacn oi 'ue
powers that he deal. with has not been, 20 isr Ca.
.as itself concerned OF that opinion. l M.Iia
cs.,,.s nike seeing what queer bands u" No"soi''
vysnan has fallen into since the De Vyou OF o'on-
aSam membership was established, MADE m's'sAo
a. contracting to let that publication nase "us"
ha.,. of the articles in question so tha' snoy S
~" hare simultaneously with their puphcatioh III
sPp', n,. ot aThe FortYighty In London. De
.u0 =, Sion is in bad odor with all the respec'acIe
nsrt Of the French presa because Oh tno atDOo
i;hsi. which no wrote on 1t for lie Messsser Nuss
Ia denied having written them untu they were
Avn hi. throat This naturally tendea 70 Aeop .A0
oown e. Cherries pixies great knowledge under
b1sbel: aud he had the modification Oh nuu'u Do"
three OF the series we're omitted. nc on0 ~ ,hs
AID MT suit the fishers In troubled waters 'uei0 Ao
Ka,koAs Abramofs and Lessers; VINO W 'uo ~ ~
krot of Jews setting up to be the quntessehoo Vi %
S,.v ,aes Sir Charles Dixie did not see why England
I'D Rus.ia shouid not agree and in dealng Win tuo
Asiatie outlook OF Great Britain strongly roco"
oanded friendship with China, an empire ~n'cn n"e
behind her prodigioas past, ana future poruaps
more graudiose. Now as the Psn-Slav Hebrews ana
French LIMOGES with whom they are working wouiu
have no ostensioe save hatred OF Germany 70
.o.perate were the Gear on excellent terms WIN
Victoria 1t did not suit their book to give what
little publicity they command to the article Oh RUSSIA.
N
Rvuev They treated the article Italy IN the same
cavalier fashion, because Sir Charles ADVISED inc
Italians to stick to their German alliance AS 10 wnat
he said Of Great Britain they ignored It. had NOT tne
r.vev in question dropped very low in public esti-
nation would say that this was case OF the blind
Leading the blind through FOOLS paradise or
Cbsrs committed the crime of stating with absolute
trnth aud with great moderation that Eng'shu as
State has been rising to higher moral pane 10 nor
dealings with other nations. while France has been
,etrosradinQ France, represented BY the ruck OF
Opportunism which has survived Gamoetta, cismors
about tho seizure by England OF Cyprus, whereas az
Sir Charles Dixie remarss, the tribute d 81 majesty
agreed to pay the Sultan is punctuay transmitted
him while the French seized upon Iunis wltnout
sayng " by your leave"
Sir Charles meets the attacks OF which he mas oeen
the object ia the temper OF an English gentleman suo
statesman. He is very patient aud very temperate
IN retorting The Temps" and the "Justice" did
him the honor OF reprinting most OF what be wrote
for aThe Fortnightly" aud La Revue bleue
notced in q worthy spirit the whole series OF his
sr,ces He gave mortal offence at Vienna and Pcstn.
In the Austrian capital that insincere old woman
Won Beust passes for statesman He was little more
than feeble CODY OF Metteruich formed In London
.ocety at time when facility for small tabe-taik
and coinug neat anecdotes held to be the accom-
pishmeut of accomplishments. Sir Cnarles DiiSe
shows him in his true hight which was that OF mar
Mot Who generally managed to defeat his own
sehemes and no exercised fatal 10 duence over the
Emperor Napoleon I'LL By encouraging him In the
.oumer of 1870 to declare war with Prussia and By
promising the help Of Austria to France Sir Charles
Dixie assume Las been shown quantity OF docu-
mania tbr wing light upon Count Won Beusts fatal
.aion on French diplomacy in 1870. Both Austrisns
and Haogarans OF the ,erning clssses are furois
with Sir Charles Dixie because although be would he
glad IL Austria to be victorious IN war wnich
he believes Is pending between her and Russia, ne Is
forced to believe that the Russians will be victorious.
The Beleans WINGED terribly under what Sir Charles
sad of their situation which that OF the nail between
the anvil and hammer. At first they were angry.
But then their reflective qualities came 10 the lore,
and they are now working hard at their detences so
that their little territory shall not again DC the COCKPIT
Of France and Germany.
Tho series of Dixie articles out very we'll in
French. Their author is capable of writing them in
this language and l think detect q few Anglican
terms of expression Lady Dixie Is an admirable
French scholar. But she writes and speaks the
French OF the eighteenth century, which has now Tor
ia home upper-cass houses at Montreal and Quebec.
There is good deal OF the afsbiity, the grace' the
briskness and the picturesqueness OF the eighteenth
century Marquse in manner, AIR, counteuance and
get up With don't know what OF English cordially
and sentiment. Though religious in feeling, she Is,
Tame says Just the OF person that Votare would
have nKed to receive at erney. She tar more am
bstious that her husbands articles on ths State OF
Eorope should make q mark in the world than he 10
himself II 1t is true that ceque femme vent Dieu
yeat" he will he again at Downing Street. What
most like in Lady Dixie is the utter absene OF gall and
bitterness in he conversation, IN which, were tney III
her heart. tbev would como out. Tue name OF MIS-
Ashton bike the sister OF Yrs. Craw ord, has often
been mentioned In the presence OF Lady Dixie. But
oever heard her say word To her show
hatred Of her In silence or try to aamn her with faint
praise. Her attitude toward the absent sister-inaW
vas one showing esteem. She never question q toe
goodness OF her motives She believes her to be a
woman Of fine mind and generous instincts and thinks
her . pattern mother hut opnes that sne was unjust
Sir Charles because led away by loyalty to her sex
and to her sister.
The marvellous vein Of luck Of the SAKE Coburg
family does not yet seem exhausted. Primes Ferdi
OF that ilk has unanimously elected by the
Sobrsnie to succeed Prince Alexander Battenberg as
sovereign OF Bulgaria Prince Ferdinand is grand
son OF Louis Philippe, his mother being the Princess
CleDentine OF Orleans His father was the Augustus
spoken Of in Theodore Martins Lite OF the Prince
ct Saxe-Cohurg. Prince Ferdinand ussd to be called
y an infant In his family "the hover OF old age
Bis mother elderly and his father nginE fast.
These circumstances may have increased in him the
natural prudence OF his race on both sides he was
born ia 1851 when his other brothers and sisters were
hearty all grown up. and two OF tho former az is the
way of rare CoburIs. looking out for matches with
great hsir-sses with the Princess Imperial OF
Brazil and her sister Leopoldine see Prince Ferdi-
hand 10 described as handsome. l used to meet him
good deal when he o boy whom he was nice sort
y strplng but bcauty. He resembled his brothers
They we're fne grown men OF mperous carriage aud
strange phys ognonies their vssges resembling iu-
Ola rubber faces OF aquiline sort squeezed up IKE
crush hat Their faces were broader than they
vide awake and their noses violently hooked at the
bridge.
Ferdinand was q good deal in Paris with his mother
when the Republic was headed by Orranist Dukes.
His mothers spiritual director aud his preceptor
vas Monslenor Dupanloup, Bishop Of Orleans, to
whose school at St. Mespin, near Orleans, he won't
All the SsxeCoburgs Of the Vennose branch are inrx
and men and women have tine peculiarly aquiline
i.cea ] have described. They take this from their
Hungarian Jewess ancestor, the Kohary helress Her
name w:s bargalned by her father was to be borne
With that OF 81 Ie-Coburg by her descendants. But
when they got hold Of der haitage they dropped the
nsne bat I'D not slouph the Kobary skin. The late
Aing Consort Of Portugal was one OF the rare blond
members OF these SaxeCoburgs. and Victoria. vile OF
snr Due de Nemours, another. Augustus, Lons
fhnppss son-n-law. vent desp into Cal holic piety
end ~sthetcs tor tour He wanted no, to look
any wise Hebrew; he wanted 10 please the Court
81 Vienna, which was Jcsnt ridden he wanted to
sumor HE vie and mother-inlsw, the Queen OF the
french and he wished o be favorably regarded by
The ultra-Cathoiics OF Be GUM. he having Tor q long
naubef of years falr prospect of boeoming the KING